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Monthly Archives: January 2013

The Pizza Garden is an excellent location for lunch or dinner if you are travelling along the Oregon Coast Highway, but is also a great place to stop in for a special dessert. All of the desserts are made from scratch including all of the ice cream flavors that are available. There is a wide array of options to choose from the most popular butterscotch and Irish creme to other unique flavors like Coconut, fresh berry sherbets, and of course, simple selections like chocolate and Vanilla. The best thing about this place is that sometimes you don’t want to order a whole dessert after a meal especially a large lasagna or pasta or pizza dish, but they offer an excellent low cost solution. The ice cream taster. It is served in a nice little cup and is enough to clean your pallet and leave you fully satisfied. The best part about the taster is that they are only a buck, that’s right you can still enjoy a little dessert at the Pizza Garden for only a single dollar.

Stop and check out this great place and enjoy the views from the large bay windows that look out to the river and bay.

It is always much more fun to find a perfect and whole sand dollar tucked into the sand, waiting for you to stumble by and find it, treasure it, and take it home. However, that is not the case for a vast majority of sand dollars that find there way tumbling to shore in the waves along the Oregon coast. It may be crushing to flip over a perfect and good looking sand dollar bottom to reveal the smashed face, just to toss back to the sand to continue breaking down in the churn of the waves, but it just makes it that much more special when they are found whole.

Keep searching and you will find more perfect sand dollars than you will ever know what to do with.

Beach combing is a fun activity along the coast. You never know what you might encounter or find that has washed up on the shore. Finding intact whole shells is a fun activity for the kids and adults as well, but also keep your eyes peeled for a shiny Oregon coast agate or a special fishing float that has washed ashore after coming loose in a storm. While the winter can be a stormy season there tends to be a day of break occasionally that will be mild and are perfect for getting out for a long walk along the shore.

Walking the Oregon coast on a sunny day made the shells of razor clams glisten in the soft wet sand from the receding surf.

These are the ones that didn’t end up on our dinner plate, yet surely were enjoyed by a creature along the shore of the Pacific ocean.

Find out more about clamming for Razor clams with this basic guide. The North Oregon Coast and sandy beaches of Washington are home to large populations of the delicious slender Razor clams. Found in the surf on low tides, these are a popular local delicacy that can bring out hundreds of people onto the beach late into the night during winter with lanterns and clam shovels searching the retreating waves for the tell tale show of a razor clam hole.